Ella Ryan
One of the earliest African American business owners in Tacoma, Washington; owner and editor of The Forum, a weekly newspaper.
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Zoë Dusanne
Seattle’s first professional modern-art dealer, who introduced modern art to many residents of the Puget Sound region, and helped to catalyze the rise and international fame of the Northwest School of artists.
Priscilla Maunders Kirk
Oral history of an African American Seattleite
Cheryl Linn Glass
Cheryl Linn Glass was the first African American female professional race-car driver in the United States.
Bessie Burke
Bessie Bruington Burke was the first African American teacher and principal hired in the Los Angeles public school system. Burke held influential, powerful, and redeeming responsibilities for over 40 years in California.
Dorothy Hollingsworth
Dorothy Hollingsworth was the first Black woman in Washington to serve on a school board.
Nora B Adams
Nora B. Adams was an African American Seattle Public School principal who left more than $1 million in her estate to three of her major interests.
Ernestine Anderson
Ernestine Anderson launched her amazing career as a jazz singer while still a teenaged Seattle high school student back in the 1940s.
Dr Blanche Sellers Lavizzo
Dr. Blanche Sellers Lavizzo was the first African American woman pediatrician in the state of Washington.
Dr Rosalie Reddick Miller
Dr. Rosalie Reddick Miller was the first African American woman dentist to practice in the State of Washington.